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plagued

/pleyg/US // pleɪg //UK // (pleɪɡ) //

困扰着,困扰,困扰的,多灾多难

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an epidemic disease that causes high mortality; pestilence.
    • : an infectious, epidemic disease caused by a bacterium, Yersinia pestis, characterized by fever, chills, and prostration, transmitted to humans from rats by means of the bites of fleas.Compare bubonic plague, pneumonic plague, septicemic plague.
    • : any widespread affliction, calamity, or evil, especially one regarded as a direct punishment by God: a plague of war and desolation.
    • : any cause of trouble, annoyance, or vexation: Uninvited guests are a plague.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    plagued, pla·guing.

    • : to trouble, annoy, or torment in any manner: The question of his future plagues him with doubt.
    • : to annoy, bother, or pester: Ants plagued the picnickers.
    • : to smite with a plague, pestilence, death, etc.; scourge: those whom the gods had plagued.
    • : to infect with a plague; cause an epidemic in or among: diseases that still plague the natives of Ethiopia.
    • : to afflict with any evil: He was plagued by allergies all his life.

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Examples

  • How the 2021 Sundance Film Festival — and many of its films — reflected life in a time of plague.

  • The crown used the information to gauge the toll of the plague on its largest city and the relative safety of conducting royal business within city limits.

  • Throughout human history, we have been subjected to wave after wave of viral and bacterial plagues.

  • It’s unclear how the plague bacterium first reached Siberia or whether it caused widespread infections and death, Götherström says.

  • Reading Peter Singer’s The Life You Can Save in the year of the plague.

  • Similar stories plague many parts of Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Asia.

  • Why is violence against women central to so many of the conflicts that plague the planet today?

  • Spread happens easily, however, and epidemics are propagated when the third form of plague occurs: pneumonia plague.

  • As I described in an article over the summer when the fatal case in China was diagnosed, plague has three distinct clinical forms.

  • The plague made a brief appearance in China earlier this year and continues in the U.S. with a few cases annually.

  • The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.

  • Garnache need not plague himself with vexation that his rash temper alone had wrought his ruin now.

  • A man was whipped through London for going to court when his house was infected by plague.

  • The plague at Smyrna committed great ravages; about 300 died daily for some time.

  • Those little Babcocks are sure to come, invited or not, and as surely would plague the life out of her.